I have been waiting on ICANN’s ruling with the 20 cent fee being added to deleted domain names during the RGP and hope to hear something very soon from ICANN.

This is going to be a Huge shake up when this happens and I can’t wait for the day to happen. This will stop companies from Mass grabbing every single .com & .net domain on the pending delete drops.

What does this mean to people who go after 2nd tier drops? You get to be #1 soon! Now the Big Gems will still be grabbed by drop companies since people can still place back orders on the domain names. When a customer places a back order, this allows the company to go after the domain because they know they will get paid for it.

The domains these drop companies will stop going after are the ones that do not have back orders on, well most of them anyway. Many of these domains currently are just added to their Open Auction service, the auction runs for 3 days and if no buddy buys, they simply redrop the domain on the 4th day and get their money back for the registration fees. It’s likely these companies have some pretty strong data on the "types" of domains they normally sell currently, so it’s likely they will still go after those. Those will be domains like CCC.net’s & LLLL.com’s and priced low to intice bidding.

The domains that I see that will not be gone after during Pending Delete drops are some nice one word domains, strong 2 word domains lost in the mix etc.

Now what kind of scale are we talking about here? For example, today just at SnapNames.com they have 75,977 .com & .net domains they captured on the pending delete drop 3 days ago (Monday) that they have "in auction". None of these domains had back orders placed by customers and about 95% of them will get Redroped tomorrow. Then you still have your other companies that follow nearly the same process.

Pool.com offers domains like this in auction. eNom.com just simply tastes many and does not offer them for sale. eNom just hunts the domains with traffic and drops the rest. Then you have the countless other private registrars that do their own private tasting which will also change.

Until ICANN lets the public know about the new fee, we won’t really know how this will effect the drops, but I know the bottom line is important to any of these entities and any fee would hurt them in one way or another. So expect to see for the first time in a long time, the average joe being able to catch 1st Tier drops!